Jared Spool did the opening keynote presentation early this morning at IA Summit 2008. His talk, titled Journey to the Center of Design, was funny enough to keep us awake and provocative enough to keep us listening.
He opened it up by flatly stating:
“User-centered design has never worked.”
He went on to talk about [...]

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Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 - New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]

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Huge thanks goes out to tech heavyweight Guy Kawasaki for putting this little blog on his new directory of design sites at design.alltop.com. Alltop is a collection of RSS feeds grouped by category and displayed all on one page — perfect for people who don’t have a feed reader or who are looking for something new to read. The last five posts are displayed from each blog/news source.

You can read more about Alltop here, here and here.

While you’re at it, check out Guy’s other latest venture, Truemors, a news site for “true rumors.”

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How freakin’ cool! A virtual seminar by UIE entitled Mental Models: Getting Into Your Customer’s Head with Indi Young, formerly of Adaptive Path
February 20, 1pm
90 minutes
$159
Free copy of Indi’s new book Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior at no extra cost when you sign up.

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